Word: compassioner
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LOLITA, by Vladimir Nabokov. The year's most controversial novel and also, by all odds, the best written. Simply as the story of a perverted sexual adventure, it is shocking. As an exploration of the secret places of the heart, mind and spirit, ruled by terrible private devils, it...
Writer Le Chanois has found the best possible formula for quieting objections to his frankly polemic theme: natural childbirth. He creates a picture that is dramatically first-rate even without the birth scene, puts it together with a blend of personal compassion and cinematic skill. In the almost fable-simple...
And yet Maritain adds: "Deep beneath the anonymous American smile there is a feeling that is evangelical in origin-compassion for man, a desire to make life tolerable.''
Below them on the stage, the cast-J.B. and his family-appears ("Well, that's our pigeon," says Mr. Zuss). As the agony of J.B. unfolds before them, Nickles and Zuss constantly break into the action with a double dialectic-Divine Creator v. Destroyer, human hope (flavored with...
Baldly told, without regard to Author Cicellis' luminous sensibility and genuine compassion. Ten Seconds from Now could seem as world-wearily neurasthenic as Françoise Sagan's round-robin tournaments of amour. Dominique loves Nondas who has eyes only for Erne. Diki is engaged to Vangos but...